Heidi Banford

Title

Associate Professor

Department

Biology Department

Institution

University of West Georgia

hbanford@westga.edu

Education

Ph.D. in Marine Science from College of William and Mary.
M.A. in Marine Science from College of William and Mary.
B.S. with an emphasis in Natural Sciences from The Evergreen State College.

Research Interests

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Contact Information

678-839-4034

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Systematics and Biogeography of Beloniform Fishes. Recently I Have Expanded Research Into the Ecology With Broad Interests in Systematics and Biogeography And Phylogeography of Southeastern U.S. Freshwater Fishes. I Have a Number of Ongoing Research Projects That Span Freshwater and Marine Environments. My Current Investigations Are in Spatial and Temporal Diversity of Neotropical Freshwater and Marine Taxa Utilizing Independent Morphological and Molecular Markers. One Area of Research Is in the Phylogeography and Diversity of Neotropical Freshwater Fishes. I Am Simultaneously Examining the Biogeographic History of Three Genera of Fishes in Lower Central America While Undertaking a Morphological Revision of This Fishes’ Taxonomy and Systematics. The Complex Emphasizing Ichthyology But Well Described Geological History of the Central American Isthmian Region Affords an Opportunity to Hypothesize and Test Mechanisms of Vicariance and Dispersal in These Fishes Across a Dynamic Landscape. A Second Area of Emphasis Is the Taxonomy Characidae New Species Phylogenetic Systematics Fish Collections

List of Publications (7)

In 2010

- Banford, H.M. 2010. Hyporhamphus collettei, a new species of inshore halfbeak (Hemiramphidae) endemic to Bermuda, with comments on the biogeography of the Hyporhamphus unifasciatus species group. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 123(4): 345-358.
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In 2004

- Banford, H. M., E. Bermingham, B.B. Collette. 2004. Molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of needlesfishes (Belonidae: Strongylura and Tylosurus): Perspectives on New World marine speciation. Mol. Phylogen. Evol. 31:833-851.
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In 2001

- Banford, H.M. and B.B. Collette. 2001. A new species of halfbeak, Hyporhamphus naos (Beloniformes: Hemiramphidae), from the tropical eastern Pacific. Revista Biol. Trop. 49(1):39-49.
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- Collette, B.B. and H.M. Banford. 2001. Status of the eastern Pacific needlefish Tylosurus pacificus (Steindachner, 1876) (Beloniformes: Belonidae). Revista Biol. Trop. 49(1):51-57.
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In 1999

- Banford, H.M., E. Bermingham, B.B. Collette, and S.S. McCafferty. 1999. Phylogenetic systematics of the Scomberomorus regalis species group (Teleostei: Scombridae): molecules, morphology and biogeography. Copeia 1999(3):596-613.
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In 1997

- Bermingham, E., H. Banford, A. P. Martin and V. Aswani. 1997. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Neotropical Fish Collections. Pp 37 -38 In: L. Malabarba (ed.), Neotropical Fish Collections. Museu de Ciencias e Tecnologia, PUCTS, Puerto Alegre, Brazil.
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In 1993

- Banford, H.M. and B.B. Collette. 1993. Hyporhamphus meeki, a new species of halfbeak (Teleostei: Hemiramphidae) from the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 106(2):369-384.
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